Word: indirectness
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...provided by the Progress and Freedom Foundation, the think tank through which the Speaker's college course was funded. Though Gingrich is no longer connected formally with the foundation, his sympathetic attention to what it produces is enough to bring it support from people who see it as an indirect route to the Speaker's ear. "Of all the think tanks, that's one whose reports are not just going to sit on the shelf,'' says lobbyist Jim Tozzi, whose firm has helped tobacco and chemical firms fight government regulations. "If I give somebody money, I want to make sure...
...worry to the Pentagon." The other worry, Waller reports, is that President Clinton's belief that one year of peacekeeping will solidify the peace is unrealistic. "The U.S. military doesn't think that the Bosnian Serbs will take on the NATO force directly," says Waller. "You'll see the indirect stuff, sniping and terrorist attacks. But the Pentagon thinks the Serbs will abide the NATO presence through the winter months. It's snowing there. No one fights in the winter. The real test will come in the springtime when the snows thaw and the armies can move. The other thing...
...They have no direct responsibility or even indirect responsibility," Layzer says, "You have to distinguish between responsibility and input...
...neutralize these strengths, Harvard has worked on defending corner and indirect kicks this week in practice...
Star asks the question, "Beyond racism, are black people...still oppressed?" He answers his own query, writing. "If you take the indirect and circumstantial route, yes.... If you take the direct route, no." He continues his string of contradictions by naming police brutality as a tool of institutional oppression. Star then states that police brutality "actively hurt[s] the black community and keep[s] it from achieving everything that it can." Once again, these two ideas are incompatible. How can police brutality actively hurt the black community, yet not be considered a "direct" form of oppression? We contend that...